Famous people born in 1922

The best-known people born in 1922, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Judy Garland
American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian (1922–1969)
June 10 · d. 1969
Photo: Eric Carpenter (1909-1976) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ., Public domain
José Saramago
Portuguese novelist (1922–2010)
November 16 · d. 2010
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY 2.0
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
November 11 · d. 2007
Photo: Bernard Gotfryd / Adam Cuerden, Public domain
Yizhak Rabin
Israeli politician, statesman and general (1922–1995)
March 1 · d. 1995
Photo: Yaakov Saar, CC BY-SA 3.0
Christopher Lee
English actor and singer (1922–2015)
May 27 · d. 2015
Photo: Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0
Doris Day
American actress and singer (1922–2019)
April 3 · d. 2019
Photo: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0
Jack Kerouac
American writer (1922–1969)
March 12 · d. 1969
Photo: Tom Palumbo from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Stan Lee
American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer (1922–2018)
December 28 · d. 2018
Photo: US Embassy Tokyo, Public domain
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)
March 5 · d. 1975
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Joan Fuster
Spanish writer (1922–1992)
November 23 · d. 1992
Photo: Manuel Boix, CC BY-SA 3.0
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996
November 14 · d. 2016
Photo: EC - Audiovisual Service, CC BY 4.0
Norodom Sihanouk
Cambodian monarch and politician (1922–2012)
October 31 · d. 2012
Photo: Norodom Sihanouk , gifted to Andre Kostelanetz, Public domain
Carl Reiner
American actor
March 20 · d. 2020
Photo: Louise Palanker from Los Angeles/Santa Barbara, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)
April 13 · d. 1999
Photo: Rob Mieremet / Anefo, CC0
Ava Gardner
American actress (1922–1990)
December 24 · d. 1990
Photo: MGM, Public domain
Chen-ning Yang
Chinese physicist (1922–2025)
October 1 · d. 2025
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Aage Bohr
Danish physicist (1922–2009)
June 19 · d. 2009
Photo: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Public domain
Betty White
American actress and comedian (1922–2021)
January 17 · d. 2021
Photo: Angela George at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/, CC BY-SA 3.0
Thomas Kuhn
American historian, physicist and philosopher (1922 – 1996)
July 18 · d. 1996
Photo: Bob Bielk, Public domain
Har Gobind Khorana
Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011)
January 9 · d. 2011
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Franjo Tuđman
Croatian politician, soldier, president and historian (1922–1999)
May 14 · d. 1999
Photo: Mark Reinstein, Public domain
Leon M. Lederman
American mathematician and physicist
July 15 · d. 2018
Photo: FNAL, Public domain
Nikolay Basov
Soviet physicist (1922-2001)
December 14 · d. 2001
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Agostinho Neto
President of Angola (1975-1979)
September 17 · d. 1979
Photo: Rob Mieremet / Anefo, CC0
Ahmed Sékou Touré
President of Guinea (1922-1984)
January 9 · d. 1984
Arthur Ashkin
American physicist (1922-2020)
September 2 · d. 2020
Photo: Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0
Gérard Philipe
French actor (1922-1959)
December 4 · d. 1959
Photo: Studio Harcourt., Public domain
Christiaan Barnard
South African cardiac surgeon
November 8 · d. 2001
Photo: Eric Koch for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Alain Resnais
French film director (1922–2014)
June 3 · d. 2014
Photo: Studio Harcourt, Public domain
Hans Georg Dehmelt
German physicist (1922-2017)
September 9 · d. 2017
Photo: Photograph by Davis Freeman, University of Washington, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W., Attribution

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January

January 1 · Marek Edelman, (1919–2009) Jewish resistance member
January 17 · Luis Echeverría, 57th President of Mexico
January 19 · Miguel Muñoz, Spanish association football player and manager (1922–1990)
January 21 · Paul Scofield, British actor (1922–2008)
January 21 · Telly Savalas, American film and television actor and singer (1922–1994)
January 28 · Robert W. Holley, American biochemist (1922–1993)

February

February 1 · Renata Tebaldi, Italian opera singer
February 8 · Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess grandmaster and author (1922–2022)
February 9 · Kathryn Grayson, American actress and coloratura soprano (1922–2010)
February 10 · Árpád Göncz, Hungarian politician, writer, translator, President of Hungary (1922-2015)
February 26 · Margaret Leighton, British actress (1922–1976)
February 28 · Juri Lotman, Russian-Estonian semiotician (1922–1993)

March

March 3 · Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian football player and manager (1922–2002)
March 8 · Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (1921–2008)
March 8 · Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor and engineer (1922–2014)
March 11 · Abdul Razak Hussein, former 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (1922-1976)
March 19 · Hiroo Onoda, Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer (1922-2014)
March 23 · Ugo Tognazzi, Italian film and theatre actor, director and screenwriter (1922-1990)

April

April 1 · Alan Perlis, American computer scientist (1922–1990)
April 15 · Michael Ansara, American stage, screen, and voice actor (1922–2013)
April 16 · Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)
April 19 · Erich Hartmann, German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1922–1993)
April 21 · Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (1922–1987)
April 22 · Charles Mingus, American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader (1922–1979)

May

May 8 · Bernardin Gantin, Beninese Catholic prelate and Servant of God (1922–2008)
May 13 · Bea Arthur, American actress and comedienne (1922–2009)
May 25 · Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (1922–1984)
May 29 · Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, architect and engineer (1922–2001)
May 30 · Hal Clement, American author (1922–2003)
May 31 · Denholm Elliott, British actor (1922–1992)

June

June 2 · Clair Cameron Patterson, American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
June 11 · Erving Goffman, Canadian-American sociologist (1922–1982)
June 12 · Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)
June 12 · Günter Behnisch, German architect, submarine commander in World War II (1922–2010)
June 14 · Kevin Roche, Irish-born American architect (1922-2019)
June 26 · Eleanor Parker, American actress (1922-2013)

July

July 2 · Pierre Cardin, French-Italian fashion designer (1922–2020)
July 13 · Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician (1922–2016)
July 19 · George McGovern, American historian and politician (1922–2012)
July 25 · John B. Goodenough, American materials scientist (1922–2023)
July 26 · Jason Robards, American actor (1922–2000)
July 26 · Blake Edwards, American film director, screenwriter and producer (1922-2010)

August

August 8 · Alberto Granado, Argentine-Cuban biochemistry doctor, writer, scientist and traveling companion of Che Guevara (1922-2011)
August 9 · Philip Larkin, English writer, jazz critic and librarian (1922-1985)
August 18 · Alain Robbe-Grillet, French author and film director (1922–2008)
August 22 · Micheline Presle, French actress (1922–2024)
August 24 · Howard Zinn, American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker (1922–2010)
August 27 · Sōsuke Uno, 75th Prime Minister of Japan (1922-1998)

September

September 1 · Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (1922–2000)
September 1 · Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer (1922–2007)
September 16 · Guy Hamilton, English film director (1922-2016)
September 19 · Emil Zátopek, Czech long-distance runner (1922-2000)
September 19 · Dana Zátopková, Czech javelin thrower
September 27 · Arthur Penn, American producer and director (1922–2010)

October

October 8 · Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and manager (1922-2007)
October 21 · Liliane Bettencourt, French heiress, socialite and businesswoman
October 27 · Carlos Andrés Pérez, President of Venezuela (1922-2010)
October 27 · Michel Galabru, French actor (1922–2016)
October 31 · Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (1922–2005)
October 31 · Anatoli Papanov, Soviet actor (1922–1987)

November

November 9 · Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922-1974)
November 9 · Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (1922–1965)
November 12 · Kim Hunter, American actress (1922-2002)
November 14 · Veronica Lake, American actress (1922–1973)
November 17 · Stanley Cohen, American biochemist
November 26 · Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, known for creating the comic strip, "Peanuts" (1922-2000)

December

December 1 · Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet football, bandy, and ice hockey player (1922–1979)
December 3 · Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer and film director (1922-2006)
December 8 · Lucian Freud, British painter and agravar (1922-2011)
December 11 · Dilip Kumar, Indian actor and politician (1922-2021)
December 11 · Maila Nurmi, Finnish American actress (1922–2008)
December 24 · Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian filmmaker (1922–2019)

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